OED Appeals: Bellini

[Stephen Goranson]

Requested noun (cocktail) earlier than 1965.

Venice Observed, Mary McCarthy (1956) page 19 col. 1 (confirmed on paper):
Harry's Bar has a drink called a Tiziano, made of grapefruit juice and champagne and colored pink with grenadine or bitters. "You ought to have a Tintoretto," someone remonstrated, and the proprietor regretted that he had not yet invented that drink, but he had a Bellini and a Giorgione.

 Stephen Goranson
 www.duke.edu/~goranson

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